Timeline for the next GSoC round is (for Outreachy it is more or less the same, will update later when it is available on the website):
- January 23, 17:00 UTC - mentoring organization applications due
- March 27 - Student applications due
- April 27 - Accepted students announced
- May 14 - August 14 - coding period
===TODOS===
For:
==== After the program is announced (By Jan 23) ====
[X] Apply as a mentoring organization for GSoC
[X] Inform Outreachy organizers that Wikimedia will participate as a mentoring org
[X] Explore Outreachy's new dashboard
[X] Set up a GSoC 18 and Outreachy Round 16 page on Wiki
[X] Recruit two organization administrators (from the list of mentors in the previous round)
[X] Email folks who were a mentor in the previous edition (2017)
[X] Create a Outreachy-Round-16 and Google-Summer-of-Code-18 project tag on Phab
[X] Recruit ideas for projects and mentors
[] Approach mentors of projects on New Developers landing page
[X] Look for projects in the Possible-tech-projects workboard
[X] Reach out to previous year GSoC / Outreachy candidates (both participants and mentors) for ideas
[] Elsewhere
[X] Zulip chat stream setup
==== After the accepted mentoring organizations are announced (Feb 12) ====
[] Call for mentors and projects: email to Wmfall, Wikitech-I, and Wikimedia-I
[] Check with folks: MusikAnimal, Prateek, Jayvdb, Alangi, Alex S.
[] Check with Ben about connecting CE tech needs with GSoC / Outreachy
[] Check with mentors and students from previous edition
[ ] Check with mentors listed on the New Developers guide
[] Social media outreach via MediaWiki/ Wikimedia channel
[ ] Invite mentors to be on the GSoC dashboard